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(1) Where any person is sentenced by the High Court in exercise Persons of its original, appellate or extraordinary criminal jurisdiction to committed by High imprisonment or death, the High Court shall cause such person to be Court. delivered through any court situated in Calcutta as defined in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980, to the Superintendent of the correctional home having jurisdiction to receive such person together with a warrant. The Superintendent shall execute such warrant and return it after execution to the court issuing the same. 255 Persons committed by Chief Metropolitan Magistrate. Detention as civil prisoners. The West Bengal Correctional Services Act, 1992. [West Ben. Act (Chapter VI. Deliveryof prisoners.—Sections 22, 23.— Chapter VII—Classification of prisoners.—Section 24.) (2) Where any person is committed by the High Court in execution of a writ or order for contempt of court, the court receiving the order of the High Court shall cause such person to be delivered to such custody as it may determine. (3) The High Court may, pending hearing under section 55 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 of an application for declaration of 5 of 1908. insolvency, cause a Judgement-debtor to be delivered to the Superintendent of a correctional home having jurisdiciton in Calcutta as defined in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980, to receive the person together with a warrant, writ or order. The Superintendent shall execute such warrant, writ or order and return it after execution to the court issuing the same.